单词 | mandazi |
释义 | mandazin. In East African cookery: a small cake consisting of sweetened dough fried in oil, usually triangular in shape and typically eaten as a snack or as an accompaniment to other dishes; (as a mass noun) these cakes collectively. ΚΠ 1937 Papers Legislative Council Zanzibar 15 Tea with no milk or sugar, and about 2 oz. of Mandazi. 1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 18 Oct. 18/1 (caption) Fifty children from the zone were shown how to prepare mandazis. 2018 Sunday Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 25 Nov. My mother used to give me Sh20 as bus fare, but I used to run my way to school and treat myself with mandazi in the evening. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1937 |
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